Monday, June 18, 2007

Amazing love

First page : Who can it be ?


Ahhh, now it's clear !

Or, is it?

This was what we received in the street one night. Other french people who have talked to americans told me that here religion was a really serious matter, and a lot of people do not understand how it is possible to think that God doesn't exist. Further investigations needed...

Barbeuc, 2eme du nom

J'ai dedie ces deux premieres semaines a la decouverte de la ville de nuit. Il faut savoir qu'ici la nuit tombe a 8h30pm donc on se retrouve finalement assez tot au bar. Il vaut mieux parce qu'a 2h, tout est ferme, bars, boites, clubs... Bref, un petit barathon sur les 10 derniers jours avec un score de 9/10 : oui on a pas assure on est pas sortis le mardi... Donc presque un sans faute qui nous a permis de trouver des endroits tres sympas tous les jours de la semaine : bar a un dollar la conso le lundi, boite le mercredi, bar populaire le jeudi, boite le vendredi et samedi; et de rencontrer des autochtones tres avenant dans l'ensemble.

On a aussi organise notre deuxieme barbecue, voici quelques photos :


Le QG des francais


L'entree


Un des deux tenanciers


Healthy food again...


Jen, serveuse au Malhoney's


Remi et les voisins


Un de mes colloc, Matt


Mikael et Jack, deux francais


Mikael et Steffen au reveil

Environment friendly

I know in France we don't really care about environment (even if it's changing), but here it's terrible. They really don't care about saving energy or water. Cars are big and need a lot of gas ( perhaps 16L/100km ), and as everything is wide, americans always use their car for everything. Mass transportation system is unefficient ( bus lanes cover perhaps only 1/3 of the city, and you have to wait 20 or 30 min between 2 buses ). It's the same for electricity : lights on all night long in the houses, temperature of the ambient air in the houses : 17 deg C. I do not know if it is the same everywhere in america, but this city is a very big waste of energy.



Air conditional on the roof of every house